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I like Eleventy (11ty), but... there's always a "but", right? There have been a few things that I've struggled with. While 11ty has a ton of documentation, it's not always clear and concise. Answers on StackOverflow have been somewhat lacking [...]

First Impressions of the Nintendo Switch 2 from a Switch OLED Owner

This wasn't the post I had originally planned to write this week. But, after one of my regularly scheduled Saturday Target runs, I am the proud new owner of a Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundle. Forever a [...]

Technical Independence

This topic has been cooking for a minute in my head. Figured on the weekend of Independence Day in the United States would be a good time to get up on my high horse and talk about it. With all [...]

Reusing a previously deleted custom domain on Cloudflare Pages

While I've decided that I probably don't need Cloudflare in my life, I still had a draft in the backlog related to the service. If you've been following along over the years, you know this site has had many forms [...]

Ditching GitHub

I'm late to the party. Better late than never, right? I got a bug up my ass recently, and have started to move away from services in favor of self hosting. This site is back home, being hosted on a [...]

Tech Support in the AI Hallucination Age

We're living in one of the greatest technological times in human history. We've been globally connected for a while now, and our access to information is unparalleled. Artificial intelligence, while far from perfect, has closed the knowledge gap in a [...]

Stay Ahead of the Pain

When I was cooking in my mama's womb, the genetic RNG decided I didn't need premolars #20 and #29. This wasn't my fault, but dentists would remind me that if I didn't maintain good oral hygiene, I'd end up losing [...]

AI Coding Tools I Use to Ship Faster - June 2025

As I mentioned a few weeks back, I'm leaning really hard into generative AI development. The impact genAI has had on society is hard to miss, but as a developer in my 40s, it's easy to take the low road [...]

Ditching WordPress for Eleventy

Why do I do this to myself? I settle on a platform, get comfortable with it, and then I decide to throw it all away. I should have known that going back to WordPress was a bad idea. I'm not [...]

Leaning Into Generative AI Development

While I've been no stranger to using AI to help me with my coding tasks, recently I've really leaned into generative AI development. I'm not talking about chatting through a problem with ChatGPT, or playing the copy paste game to [...]